The Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre, a unit of the Malaysian Rubber Board, was founded in 1938 and is now one of the world's leading rubber research and development establishments. TARRC's main role is to promote and assist the Malaysian rubber and rubber products industries. This is accomplished by scientific research into natural rubber, technological developments in the compounding and processing of rubbers, the design of rubber products and the improvement of service lifetime of rubber products.

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